This is the eighth in a series. You can read the first here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, the sixth here, the seventh here.
When we look at the creation story, we see that everything God does has a purpose.
He created a firmament to separate waters.
He created land separate from waters to provide dry space.
He created plants to beautify the earth and to provide food and oxygen.
He created the sun to warm us.
He created mankind to bear His image, to steward the earth, and to fill the earth with posterity.
So tell me, when he creates “the law of my priesthood, as pertaining to these things” (D&C 132:64) or the principle of polygamy, what was the purpose?
I see no purpose anywhere in D&C 132, except to establish a “new and everlasting covenant,” whatever that means. But even that is supposedly already established before this revelation (see section 131) and members will tell you it means celestial marriage, not polygamous marriage. But 132 doesn’t differentiate.
So what the purpose of polygamy?
What’s the purpose of reversing something that is usually abominable, for a “temporary time” (funny, I don’t think eternity is temporary) so you can now do the exact opposite of what God commanded all through scripture?
It’s like one day God says “I know I’ve been telling you not to lie or steal for thousands of years, but now I want you to live a lifestyle of daily lying and stealing. Not only that, but you can’t get to the highest heaven without it.”
Right.
But I digress.
So what’s the purpose?
Well, the Mormons will erroneously quote Jacob 2:30 and say sometimes polygamy is needed to raise up righteous seed.
They assume this phrase means to make an extra, higher-than-normal quantity of babies. For the kingdom of God on earth!
But there are some issues with this claim.
Firstly, studies show that a woman in a polygamous marriages will birth fewer children than a monogamous woman.
Secondly, let’s see if this logic is substantiated:
If polygamy contributes to quicker population growth, why didn’t God give Adam more than one wife? Or Noah?
If anyone ever needed quicker population rates, it would have been them.
Third, did Joseph Smith make lots of babies through his additional wives? Did he build up a righteous seed?
If so, I can’t find them anywhere.
Even his normal seed didn’t turn out to be especially righteous, according to the LDS church, who looks at Joseph Smith III as a false prophet imposter!
So, I don’t really see any purpose for a man to have excessive wives. Seems like it just leads to heartache, chaos, and getting themselves murdered (Parley P. Pratt was killed by a wife’s “previous” husband—P.S. she wasn’t a virgin).
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